Comparison of the effectiveness of an e-health program versus a home rehabilitation program in patients with chronic low back pain: A double blind randomized controlled trial Lara Palomo, Inmaculada Carmen Aguilar Ferrandiz, María Encarnación Chronic low back pain General Telemedicine Home rehabilitation McKenzie exercises Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation Randomized controlled trial The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Andalusian Health Service, Junta de Andalucia (grant number PC-0185-2017, PC-0253-2017 and PC-0536-2017, PI18/00562 Proyecto E-CEPEDOL). This study was funded by a research grant (PI18/00562 Proyecto E-CEPEDOL co-funded by FEDER -European Regional Development Fund/European Social Fund "A way to make Europe"/"Investing in your future") from the Carlos III Health Institute and 3 grants from the Andalusian Health Service, Junta de Andalucia (PC-0185-2017, PC-0253-2017 and PC-0536-2017). The funders did not take part in the design of the study, its implementation, analysis, data interpretation an/or the presentation of results. Objetive: We conducted a randomized double blind clinical trial, to compare the effectiveness of McKenzie exercises and electroanalgesia via an e-Health program versus a home rehabilitation program on functionality, pain, fear of movement and quality of life in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain. Methods: Seventy-four participants with non-specific chronic low back pain were randomized to either the e- Health program group (n=39) or the home rehabilitation program group (n=35). The interventions consisted of the e-Health program group performing McKenzie exercises and received transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, while the home rehabilitation group attended an information session to explain the exercises, which they then performed at home with printed instructions. Both groups performed 3 weekly sessions for 8 weeks. The following were analyzed main measures: pain, disability, fear of movement, quality of life, trunk muscle endurance and trunk anteflexion motion were assessed at baseline and at 2 months. Results: Independent samples Student’s t-tests showed that although the patients who followed the e-Health program showed significantly greater improvement than those who followed the home disability rehabilitation program in terms of intensity of pain, lumbar flexion mobility (P < 0.001), and the following dimensions of quality of life (P < 0.005), both groups improved significantly in the immediate post-treatment follow up compared with baseline scores. Conclusions: Patients with chronic low back pain who followed an unsupervised home intervention supported by an individualized video exercise program showed greater post-treatment improvement than those who followed the same program with printed instructions. 2022-02-23T07:37:53Z 2022-02-23T07:37:53Z 2022-01-28 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Lara-Palomo, I. C... [et al.] (2022). Comparison of the effectiveness of an e-health program versus a home rehabilitation program in patients with chronic low back pain: A double blind randomized controlled trial. DIGITAL HEALTH. [https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221074482] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72944 10.1177/20552076221074482 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 España SAGE